VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.
References
Configurations
Information
Published : 2012-04-02 03:46
Updated : 2018-10-12 15:02
NVD link : CVE-2012-1515
Mitre link : CVE-2012-1515
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CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Products Affected
vmware
- esx
- esxi